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Diane Preston

Diane Preston

OU Business School

Professional biography
Diane is Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the OU'sFaculty of Business and Law. Diane isa Senior Lecturer in the Department for People and Organisations. She was Head of Department between January 2012 and October 2016. Before joining the Open University Business School she worked at Loughborough & Lancaster Universities andcompleted her Doctorate in Management Learningat Lancaster University in 1991. Since joining OUBS, she has been involved in the production and presentation of many modules at both post-graduate and undergraduate levels. These include B120, the first level one UG module in FBL and the CIPD accreditated MSc in HRMlaunched in2014. She is currently a member of the design and writing team on the new Higher Apprenticeship degree which is being developed in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Management. Diane has been involved in many research projects. She is interested in qualitative, empirical research;a central theme being howindividuals make sense of work and organisations.She has recently completeda LFHE (Leadership Foundation in Higher Education) funded project looking at the experiences of Associate Deans in a variety of universities. She is a Senior Fellow of the HEA and a Fellow of the LFHE.